The invention discloses a tide staff
water level measurement method based on dual-waveband imaging, and belongs to the technical field of
water level measurement. A camera with a dual-waveband imagingfunction is adopted, and visible light and near-
infrared images are used for
system calibration and
water level measurement links respectively. During the
system calibration link, firstly, a measurement
system is arranged and a tide staff image of the visible light is obtained; secondly, according to a standard pattern of a tide staff to be measured, a template image is designed; finally througha selected matching
control point, a perspective projection transformation relation between the tide staff image and the template image is built; during the water
level measurement link, firstly, a near-
infrared tide staff image is obtained and then matched with the template image for rectification, binarization
processing is conducted on the rectification image,
waterline coordinates are measuredin a
horizontal projection curve of the binarization image, and according to the physical resolution of the template image, the
waterline coordinates are converted into an actual water level value. According to the tide staff water
level measurement method based on dual-waveband imaging, the scales and characters on the tide staff do not need to be measured and identified, and the robustness of low-resolution images photographed under a complex site condition is high.